Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Madrid...
...Strikes Are a Crime." On Sunday, Pamplona was calm and its coffeehouses and movies were open for business. As the new week began, Francisco Franco emerged from his closely guarded El Pardo palace on the outskirts of Madrid and for the first time made a public reference to the unrest: "Strikes are a crime . . . This is the law of jungles and primitive societies." He promised loans to farmers to increase production and lower food prices...
Franco's move seemed feeble in the face of the people's growing defiance. Spanish towns were flooded with clandestine handbills urging organized protests against the high cost of living. A 24-hour strike was called in Madrid for May 22. Spain seemed to have shed some of the fear that had kept it silent for twelve years...
...Madrid last week, New York Timesman Sam Pope Brewer left his press card at the Spanish Ministry of Education for the renewal required every six months. Next day, Reporter Brewer was summoned to the ministry, told that his press credentials had been canceled because his reporting, and the Times's "attitude," had been "generally biased and unfair toward Spain." He was told he would have to leave Spain by June...
...Brewer and the six other U.S. correspondents in Madrid,* the news confirmed their suspicions that the Spanish government, which protests it has no censorship on outgoing news, is clamping down...